Re: zfs (?) issues?

On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 04:25:16AM +0300, Sulev-Madis Silber wrote:
>i have long running issue in my 13.4 box (amd64)
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>others don't get it at all and only suggest adding more than 4g ram
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>it manifests as some mmap or other problems i don't really get
>
>basically unrestricted git consumes all the memory. 

I see symptoms like this on very slow media. That media might
be inherently slow (like microSD) or it might mean the hd/ssd is 
worn out [1]. Programs like git and subversion read and write lots of 
small files, and the os/filesystem might not be able to write
to slow media as fast as git would like. 

[1] observed failure mode of some hardware, where writes just 
     get slower and slower.

[2] the workaround where the machine *has* to use micro sd, in my
     example, to update ports, was to download latest ports.tar.xz and
     unzip it, rather than use git.

[3] test hd performance with fio (/usr/ports/benchmarks/fio)
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